Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local's parent union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), was as big a threat as Harvard claimed, then why didn't the administration put its full weight into the campaign and go giant to giant? Harvard's tactics show that it accepted this race as what it really was--the fight of individual workers to be heard and of a scrappy union to represent them...
Colleen, a former sprinter, has turned her efforts to weight-throwing. She took fourth place in that event in the Greater Boston Championships during the indoor season...
Although the evangelical leadership pledged their support to a president as telegenic as they were in the last two elections, this time around endorsements from the discredited, scandalized preachers will hold much less weight. Rank-and-file believers are still the type of people that the Democratic party has traditionally attracted--poor Southerners...
Other issues dealt with photographing equipment, updating data exchanged between the two sides and the size and weight of vehicles that can be inspected leaving Votkinsk, where Soviet SS-20 missiles are assembled...
...Academy Awards ceremony) to low (a house of ill fame where the girls impersonate movie stars). Edwards demonstrates a fondness for period dress, decor and autos, but he fails to develop an attitude, satirical or otherwise, toward his subject. And the obsessive twisting of his plot imposes a sinking weight of expository words on the picture...